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Teaching Secondary Mathematics. 6. Module 6:. Using a range of strategies and resources Example: Percentages. “Instruction is powerful only when it is sufficiently precise and focused to build directly on what students already know and to take them to the next level.” - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Teaching Secondary Mathematics
Using a range of strategies and resources
Example: Percentages
Module 6: 66
“Instruction is powerful only when it is sufficientlyprecise and focused to build directly on what students already know and to take them to the next level.”
“While a teacher does and must do many things, the most critical is designing and organising instruction so that it is focused.”
‘Breakthrough’ Fullan, Hill & Crevola (2006)
Outline of Module 6: Percentages
1. Mathematics Developmental Continuum
– Solving percentage problems- 5.5
– Adding and Taking of a percentage- 5.25
– Easy and hard ratio and proportion questions- 5.5
2. Digilearn
– Bar charts
– Designing a neighbourhood
3. Scaffolding Numeracy in the Middle Years (SNMY)
– Learning and Assessment Framework for Multiplicative Thinking
4. Assessment for Common Misunderstandings
– Percentage Tool (Task)
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/teachingresources/maths/default.htm
MathematicsDevelopmental
Continuum
MathematicsOnline
Interview
Assessment forCommon
Misunderstandings
Scaffolding Numeracy in the
Middle Years
Effective Mathematics
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Write a (correct) solution that you might expect from Year 7 or Year 8 students.
These examples are illustrated in the Solving percentage problems -
5.5 Mathematics Developmental Continuum P-10
1. There are 60 books on the shelf and 20% are cookbooks. How many cookbooks?
2. There are 60 books on the shelf and 12 are cookbooks. What percentage are cookbooks?
3. There are some books on the shelf and 12 are cookbooks. If 20% are cookbooks, how many books are on the shelf?
Solving Percentage Problems
Success for students depends on their understanding of the three basic types of percentage problems:
– MISSING PART: Finding what quantity is a given percentageof another (Refer to Question 1)
– MISSING PERCENT: Finding what percentage one quantity isof another (Refer to Question 2)
– MISSING WHOLE: Finding the whole quantity (ie the 100%) Given what percent a certain quantity is. (Refer to Question 3)
Solving Percentage Problems
Common student difficulties?• Not knowing whether to multiply or divide
• Trying to apply a rule that is partially remembered
• Not appreciating that percent means ‘out of 100’.
• In the last example, finding 20% of 12, instead of 12
being 20%.
• Not estimating the approximate size of the answer and
checking
against it.
Solving Percentage Problems
Illustration (from Continuum - Number 5.5) Problem 1: Missing Part 20% of the books on a shelf of 60 books are cookbooks. How many cookbooks are there?
What number is
20% of 60?
Problem 2: Missing Percent 12 out of 60 books on a shelf are cookbooks. What percentage of the books are cookbooks?
What % is 12 of 60?
Problem 3: Missing Whole 20% of the books on a shelf of books are cookbooks. If there are 12 cookbooks, what is the total number of books on the shelf?
Finding the whole given 12 is 20%
Use all types of problems when assessing student understanding
Solving Percentage Problems
Strategy to solve percentage problems: The dual number line
• Has strong visual impact
• Emphasises multiplication
• Is used to organise thinking, sorting out what is known and what is unknown.
This is an important general thinking tool
Solving Percentage Problems
Dual number line
0 %
May or may not know the total
100%
0
?Know total is 100%
Know 0% Know 0
May or may not know this value? ?
May or may not
know this percentage
Solving Percentage Problems
Dual number line (missing part)
1. There are 60 books on the shelf and 20% are cookbooks.
How many cookbooks?100
%
00 %
60
20 % ?
Solving Percentage Problems
Approach 1
Solving Percentage Problems
There are 60 books on the shelf and 20% are cookbooks.
How many cookbooks?
Dual number line (missing part)
100%
?20 %
00 %
60
÷ 5
12
÷ 5
Dual Number Line: Unitary method
Use the dual number line to find 1% and
then find 20%.
Show the working you might expect
from students using this method
There are 60 books on the shelf and 20% are cookbooks. How many cookbooks?
X 20
00 %
60
÷ 100
100%
1%
÷ 100
0.6X 20
20 % 12
Solving Percentage ProblemsApproach 2
Dual Number Line: Variation 10%
Solving Percentage ProblemsApproach 3
Use the dual number line to find
1% and then find 20%.
There are 60 books on the shelf and 20% are cookbooks. How many cookbooks?
0 %
60
÷ 10
100%
10%
÷ 10
6X 2 X
2
20 %
12
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/teachingresources/maths/mathscontinuum/number/N55003P.htm
Solving Percentage Problems
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/teachingresources/maths/mathscontinuum/number/N55003P.htm
Solving Percentage Problems
Dual number line (missing whole)
Use a dual number line to solve this
problem
3. There are some books on the shelf and 12 are cookbooks. If 20% are cookbooks, how books are on the shelf?
Dual number line (missing whole)
3. There are some books on the shelf and 12 are cookbooks. If 20% are cookbooks, how books are on the shelf?
Use a dual number line to solve this
problem
Percentages greater than 100%
Example – If Fiona earns $40 per hour in her
part-time job and she gets a 5% pay rise, what is her new hourly rate?
100%
00 %
40
105%
421.05 1.05
Important for students to know that adding 5% is multiplying by 1.05 for
compound interest, exponential growth, decay
etc. Continuum N5.25
Adding & Taking off a Percentage
105% 42
100%
00 %
40+5% +5%
÷ 20÷ 20
5% 2
Don’t Divide & Add on One Diagram
Good mental strategy to add
5%, but confusing with
diagram
Other uses of dual number lines
The recipe for strawberry jam says 3.5kg of sugar for 4kg of strawberries.
I have only 3kg of strawberries. How much sugar do I need?
Kg sugar
Kg strawberries
3.5 4
0 0
3?
Easy and Hard Ratio and Proportion Questions
Easy and Hard Ratio and Proportion Questions
Write a question, not involving percentages, that studentscould solve using a dual number line. For example:
1 cup is 250g, What if you need 80g? How much of a cup is this?
To make 12 muffins you use 250g of flour. How much flour will you need if you want to make 30 muffins?
A car travels 100 km in 70 minutes. How far does it travel in 80minutes? (assuming constant speed!)
n.b. try and make the questions as authentic as you can.
Easy and Hard Ratio and Proportion Questions
Dual Number Line: SummaryThe Dual Number Line:
• Useful organiser
• Helps formulate a problem mathematically from a worded problem
• Helps with estimation
• Use multiplication and division only on the diagram
• Problem solving using a mathematical diagram (but not a picture!)
• Focus on efficiency of various approaches
– Depends on the numbers involved, mental skills etc
Accessed from Digilearn 7th June 2006: Bar chart - (TLF L3512 v2.0.0)
Digilearn - BarchartClass survey on favorite sports
Applet will show
percentages
Use this applet to
explore - ask “what if?”
Accessed from Digilearn 7th June 2006:https://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/dlrcontent/4c33353132/ec_002_utah_011/index.html
What are some correct strategies
that you might expect from students?
Determine the % of people who chose
each sport
Class survey on favorite sports
Digilearn
Accessed from Digilearn 2nd January, 2008: https://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/dlr/_layouts/dlr/Details.aspx?ID=4765
Accessed from Digilearn 2nd January, 2008: https://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/dlr/_layouts/dlr/Details.aspx?ID=4765
Scaffolding Numeracy in the Middle Years
SNMY Research Project 2003-2006 • Involved RMIT University + Victorian Department of Education
+ Tasmanian Education Department
• Focussed on ‘multiplicative thinking’ as the main area of concernfor mathematical understanding in the Middle Years (as found in the MYNRP)
• The project investigated a new assessment-guided approach to improving student numeracy outcomes.
• It was aimed at identifying and refining a learning and assessment framework for the development of multiplicative thinking using rich assessment tasks.
What is ‘multiplicative thinking’?
Multiplicative thinking is indicated by a capacity to work flexibly with the concepts, strategies and representations of multiplication (and division) as they occur in a wide rangeof contexts.
Scaffolding Numeracy in the Middle Years
From early …
I had 3 bags of sweets with 8 sweets in each bag.
How many sweets do I have altogether?
To later multiplicative thinking skills
Julie bought a dress in an end of season sale for $49.35.
The original price was covered by a 30% off sticker but the sign
on top of the rack said “Additional 15% off already reduced
prices.” How could she work out how much she has saved?
What percentage off the original cost did she end up paying?
Development of multiplicative thinking
Zone 5 - Strategy Refining
Beginning to work with decimal numbers and percent but unable to apply efficiently to solve problems
Zone 7 – Connecting
Can solve and explain solutions to problems involving simple patterns, percent and proportion. May not be able to show working and/or explain strategies for situations involving larger numbers orless familiar problems.
How percent concepts develop through the multiplicative thinking framework?
Scaffolding Numeracy in the Middle Years
Assessment for Common Misunderstandings
This resource:
• Will identify the learning needs of students who teachers believe are ‘at risk’ or likely to be at risk in relation to “Number”
• Is comprised of level-based assessment tasks which are linked to appropriate VELS standard. However, these tasks recognisethat these students are underachieving and direct teachers tochoose at a level below the standard.
The key ideas addressed are:
Level 1 – Trusting the Count
Level 2 – Place value
Level 3 – Multiplicative thinking
Level 4 – Partitioning
Level 5 – Proportional reasoning
Level 6 – Generalising
Assessment for Common Misunderstandings
5.1 Relational Thinking
5.2 Sense of per cent
5.3 Understanding scale factors
5.4 Relative proportion
5.5 Interpreting rational number
5.6 Understanding ratio
5.7 Working with rate
5.8 Using per cent
Level 5: Proportional Reasoning
Assessment for Common Misunderstandings
5.8 Using per cent: diagnostic question
What was the price of the skate board before the sale?
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/teachingresources/maths/common/default.html
Assessment for Common Misunderstandings
End of Module 6
• This is the last slide of the module
• Further questions…
• Subject field- Teaching Secondary Mathematics